Fiber spoon



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' FIBER sPooN.

APPLICATION FILED IAN-17, 1922.

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narran sraras vtartar caricao ANDREAS BOTHE, F ORELANIID, PENNFYLVANIEA, ASSGNOR 'JDO KLEEN PROEUCTS COMPANY, ENC., OE NORTH WALES,`PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF DELA- WARE.

Application led January 17, 1922.' Serial No. 529,995'.

^ To all whom it ma: concern.'

citizen of the United States, residing at Ureland, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a newpand useful improvement in Fiber Spoons, of which the following is a specification.

rlhe principal object of the present invention is to provide a fiber spoon which shall i0 be stift, rigid and strong throughout its length and more especially throughout the portion ot its length which includes the bowl, the handle and the union ot the two. Another object of the invention is to provide a l5 fiber spoon having the characteristics reierred to and which shall be not only sightly but also capable of commercial manufacture. Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description, and the invention itseltl will be claimed at the end hereof.

ln the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawing formpart hereof and in whichigure l is a front viewl looking at the concavity ot the bowl of a spoon embodying features of the invention.

l ig. 2 is a longitudinal central section of the same, and 3@ Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3*-3 of Figure l.

Referring'to the drawings the fiber spoon is provided with a central corrugation, hollow ridge or valley l which starts from a @5 point 2 midway of. the length of the bowl 3 and expands sidewise and iiatwise as at 4 along the handle as at 5 and vanishes in arcuate form as at 6 at substantially the end gc of the handle. Substantially coextensive with the corrugation or valley there is a ilat border flange 7 extending around the spoon. l

Evidently the appearance orF the e )oon is at attractive and sightly and the fact that the hollow ridge or valley extends substantially halfway across the bowl and to practically the end of the handle imparts great strength and rigidity to the spoon which is particularly important in view of char FIBER SPOON.

acter of the material of which it is made. Be it known t at ll, ANDREAS BoTHn, a The ange 7 in combination with the described valley or corrugation increases the rigidit of the spoon as a whole.

As s own in the drawing the spoon is oit'- set from end to end in the direction of the valley. This will be understood by refer-l ,ring vto E ig. 2 and imagining a plane perpendicular to the plane oi the paper and passing through the end of the handle, generally indicated at 7, and the tip of the bowl of the spoon. The greatest odset occurs substantially at the junction of the bowl and By reasonvof the described bow form the spoon is structurally strong` to resist pressure applied by the handle at the tip end of the bowl in the direction of its concavity. lt may be said that the spoon i is concave from end to end and from side to side throughout its entire extent and is lengthwise of inverted arch form. Since fiber in sheet form opposes little or no,Y resistance to bending, the described form ot the spoon is a matter of great importance since it imparts suicient strength and rigidity which is not imparted to anything like the same extent in cases where reverse er ogee curves are employed.

llt will be obvious to those art that modications may be made in details of construction and arrangement, for eX- ample, the end of the bowl may be notched inwards from the periphery to provide tines, without departing from the spirit of the invention which is not limited as to such matters or otherwise than as the prior art and along the rear/halt of the bowl and extends the appended claims may require.

grinta in the 1. A liber eating implement including bowl and handle portions and having a central corrugation or valley concave in the di rection of the bowl and which extends from a point midway of the length of the bowl alon the rear halt of the bowl and along the han le and vanishes in arcuate form at substantially the end of the handle and the implement being odset throughout from end to end in the direction of the concavity of the valley, the maximum oset occurrin handle and bowl,

Q; Aifizaeo 2. A fiber spoon having a central corrugaout from end to end in the direction of the tion or valley concave in the direction of concavity of the valley.- Vthe bowl and which starts from a point sub- 3. A libe;` eating implement including a 10 stantally midway of the length of the bowl handle and bowl and concave from end to 5 and extends along the rear half of the bowl end andl fromside to side throughout its enand along the handle to substantially the end tire extent and lengthwise of arch form.

thereof and the spoon being oset throughv ANDREAS BOTHE. 

